Hugh McGuire

About Hugh McGuire

Hugh McGuire is a web
entrepreneur, who does bookish R&D on the web. He’s the founder of
LibriVox.org, the world’s most
prolific publisher of audiobooks, and the biggest collection of free,
public domain audiobooks (all read by volunteers). He’s also founder
of Iambik Audio, a commercial
audiobook publisher built on a model similar to LibriVox; and PressBooks.com, a simple digital
book-production tool. Hugh served on the Board (2002-2010) of the Atwater Library, a small
community library, and the last remaining Mechanics
Institute in Canada. He has written about publishing, books, and
the future of media for Forbes.com, O’Reilly Radar, and the Huffington
Post, among others. He’s currently editing a book, along with Brian O’Leary, about the
future of books for O’Reilly Media.